Experiments in style, by a very private person...

... or a secret agent

Apr 02, 2023

Introduction

One of the things I’ve been trying out is reworking a piece of text into a completely different style. A full exposition and explanation are given here:

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Experimenting with styles

Introduction A good way of improving your writing skills is to try reworking texts into a completely different style or genre. To some extent this overlaps with parody writing, which I intend to explore in a separate post, but as a quick example, consider this. In Brand X Fiction, a collection of parodies of fiction writers…

2 years ago · 2 likes · 6 comments · Terry Freedman

Privacy is very important to me. However, I keep reading, in blog posts by marketing gurus, that one needs to reveal something of oneself in order to gain more subscribers, customers, followers or fans. Therefore I’ve decided to compromise. The short article below reveals something about me, but I’ve redacted parts of the text.

In the ███ of the ███ , I ███ (if you can call ███ knocked myself out.

The reason was that in the twin states of ███ and ███ I was ███ in a different direction from the one I thought I was facing. As a result, instead of ███ through the ███ , I tried to ███ through the ███ .

The next few days brought ███ and ███ . After much prevarication I went to ███ , where I waited petrified among ███ for whom ███ means ███ ███ you, and who wore their ███ as a ███ .

An hour and a half later I emerged into the ███ , secure in the knowledge that I had nothing ███ . I failed to do much ███ , but I was pleased to have ███ a further ███ of my ███ .

I’d be interested to know: is this interesting, frustrating, boring, humorous or one or more of those things or something else entirely?

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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